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by alexjplant 5mo ago
I'd love an invite if you have one to spare (no expectation either way). Email is in my profile if you feel so inclined.
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by alexjplant 5mo ago
Sorry WHAT?! I was under the impression this whole time that this wasn't feasible due to asymmetric key encryption with the private keys baked deep into the hardware. Perhaps I'm misremembering but Cliff (the founder) is very big
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by alexjplant 5mo ago
I can only speak for myself but my brain was the Wild West when I was a kid. There was no canon for it to draw on in terms of how or why things were the way they were and this especially applied to creative pursuits like TV shows, movies, m
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by alexjplant 5mo ago
I've heard several LDS adherents talk about these people and I get the impression that they really don't appreciate the practices or the negative media attention that the polygamists bring to their faith. It's rather out of
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by alexjplant 5mo ago
Not incompatible with my satirical post (I wrote "performant," a notorious tech neologism, not performative). Whether subconsciously or not people 100000% use language to communicate and determine others' social tribe members
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by alexjplant 5mo ago
Let's double-click on that. It's important to keep top of mind that using disruptive words and patterns in conversation isn't always driven by LLMs — reasoning from first principles tells us that problematic usages like this
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by alexjplant 5mo ago
> I don't think using AI to write code is AI psychosis or bad at all, but if you just prompt the AI and believe what it tell you then you have AI psychosis. Today's frontier models are genuinely useful as rubber ducks or grunt
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by alexjplant 5mo ago
I never left anything valuable or personal at my desk when I worked in an office simply because I had a very nonzero number of colleagues who acted like animals. My fizzy waters, coffee, and snacks would be consumed without permission or re
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by alexjplant 5mo ago
> the current "It's got electrolytes" craze The modern emphasis on electrolytes is directionally correct but ultimately silly. Most electrolyte satchets and drinks are just overpriced salt water with artificial flavoring a
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by alexjplant 5mo ago
I've written this before, but C# is a great language held back by its culture. I'd say that 80% of C# shops I've seen used it because they were started in the late 00s by some IT guy with a surplus HP server and a dream whose
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by alexjplant 5mo ago
With the weight of the batteries in back it might be fine. The issue with RWD trucks with traditional drivetrains is the lack of traction owing to all of the weight being over the non-drive wheels. Driving my F-150 in the snow or rain was a
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
> instead that they include the name of a person they just met in every sentence because it made that person like them more. I've never read this book but have learned through cultural osmosis that this practice largely originated
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
> Wordpress runs like 70% of the web and you can really feel it from the 1500ms+ TFFB most sites have. PhpBB is not much better. At least phpBB died 15 years ago with most communities migrating to Xenforo. I'm not quite sure how or
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
> casting about for viable egress paths if I need to flee Claude Code Check out OpenCode (the OSS product [1]) and OpenCode Go/Zen (the LLMaaS [2]). Use a more expensive model with larger context (like GLM-5.1) for orchestration and
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
As the Dead Kennedys opined: "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death"! [1] [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=FV1YVZV-Wb8
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
No, calling him "disturbed" was entirely out of line. As with everything it's not GitHub per se that is causing him consternation but the loss of what it represents: > “Some people doom scroll social media. I've been
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
> For that reason I think the happiest I've been is with a dirt cheap bike in Japan. Didn't even lock it properly (just a key built into the frame) and could park it outside any old shop or restaurant for hours. I didn't s
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
Did people act like this in the 70s too when we had stagflation, mass unemployment, gas rationing, Vietnam, Nixon, etc. to contend with? I ask that sincerely because I wasn't around then. The US got a ton of cool music and cinema durin
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
> the “4 10s” concept is also a bad idea that permeates the defense contractors. If you're doing work on a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (which many software development efforts are) then you have to count hours anyway because you ge
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
I have no idea whether he said that but it reminds me of something. I'm rewatching (by which I mean "playing in the background while I do other stuff") the HBO show "Silicon Valley" and it literally has this in it.
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
> they are a source of toxoplasmosis You are far more likely to get it from undercooked beef or shellfish than from a cat. Less than 1% of cats broadly are shedding it at any given time and that number is even lower for indoor cats. If,
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
Lightning is a superior physical design to USB-C (can't speak to the electrical part). Much like every major tech battle in history, however [1], the worse solution won because of ubiquity. I'm not particularly thrilled because I&
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
My personal LLM coding stack is now OpenCode, Claude Sonnet for ideation on spec with OpenWhispr for voice-to-text, GLM-5.1 for the orchestrating loop, GLM-4.7 for coding, and DeepSeek R1 for review and validation. It works much, much bette
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
Updated my comment to refine my rhetorical intent. Thank you for the call-out.
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
> "code should be self documenting It should be to the greatest extent possible. Strive to write literate code before writing a comment. Comments should be how and why, not what. > - ergo: We don't write any comments, ever&q
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
From TFA: > Someone once said that SF is a town of extremely high sincerity, and all of its modern and historical weirdness — the AI doomerism, the cults, the hippies, the drug use, the polycules — is downstream of people saying things a
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
Using a speaker as a kick drum mic ("subkick") has been a thing in recording for years [1]. I've never used one but it makes complete sense. [1] https://bobbyowsinskiblog.com/build-subkick/
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
People do all manner of wacky stuff with Pis that could be more easily done with traditional machines. Kubernetes clusters and emulation boxes are the more common use cases; the former can be done with VMs on a desktop and the latter is eas
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
I recently had to write a coding interview question for candidates at my current job. I wrote the outline and had Claude generate synthetic data for it. I then wrote the solution without assistance to make sure it was viable (and because I
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by alexjplant 6mo ago
For personal use I've noticed Claude (via the web-based chat UI) making really bizarre mistakes lately like ignoring input or making completely random assumptions. At work Claude Code has turned into an absolute dog. It fails to follow

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